Toy



E. E. PEAVEY.

APPLlCATlON FILED JUNE 24,19l9.

Patented Feb. 3,

INVENTOR.

WITN' B Y jZEPeare ATTORNEY.

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ERNEST E. PEAVEY, 0F BANGOR, MAINE.

4 TOY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST E. PEAVEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novel construction of toy and the invention comprises a cannon with means for projecting a ball therefrom and a movable target which when struck by the ball will drop behind a sta tionary part and thus be hidden from view.

The invention also comprises means for permitting the cannon to disappear behind a fort after being fired.

' This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described,

illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my inventionin detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view. I

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are detail views.

In these views, 1 indicates a platform on which the different parts of the toy are arranged. Adjacent one end of the platform is located a pair of standards 2 which are suitably secured to the platform. The standards are provided with holes adjacent their upper ends to receive the shaft 3. The shafthas both rotary and sliding movement in said holes and a sleeve ton the shaft and between the standards acts to limit the'longitudinal movement of said shaft. The outer end of the shaft is provided with a handle 5 which has a square part 6 thereon against rotary movement. On its inner end the shaft carries a member 8 which is secured to the shaft adjacent one end thereof so that said member tends to rotate the shaft so that it may assume its lowermost position, shown Specification of Letters Patent. Pate11ted Feb 3, 192().

Application filed June 24, 1919. Serial N5. 306,306. it

in dotted lines in Fig. 1. I prefer toinake this member of a form to represent a shlp.

To hide this member from View when the same is in its lowest position I place upright strips 9 before the same, said strips moved downwardly and rearwardly so as to disappear behind the fort. \Vhen in lOW ered position the end of the cannon will rest on a support 15 secured to the platform and having its upper edge recessed to receive the cannon. If desired a second pair of stand- .ards similar to the pair 13 may be placed immediately behind the fort and secured to the cannon. This second pair is shown in dottedlines at 16. The cannon is provided with. a spring plunger 17 for propellingv a ball such as 18 from the muzzle of the cannon. The plunger is held in retractive position by means of a slot '19 formed in the plunger and adapted to engage with a projection 20 formed at the rear end of the cannon.

It will thus be seen that when the plunger is released it will project the ball from the cannon and saidball will strike the target 8 and thus move said. target with the shaft3 rearwardly so as to release the square part 6 from the square recess 7 Thiswill permit the target to drop by gravity behind the strips 9 so as to give the effect of a sinking ship. By quickly releasing the cannon after the firing the same the same willdrop behind thefort and' thus act like a disappearin gun. a

l lavin g thus described my invention, what up is I (if a platform, an upright partitionon the platform representing a fort, a cannon hingedly connected with the platform behind the partition, partitions infront of the fort for l. A toy of'the class described comprising representing the sea, a rotatable targetrepresenting a ship and means for causing, the

7 target to rotate behind the partitions representing the sea when struck by a ball projected by the cannon.

2. A toy of the class described comprising a platform, a pair of standards thereon, a

- shaft journaled in said standards and hav-.

ing sliding movement therein, said shaft having a square part thereon and one of the standards having a square recess for recelvlng said square part, a member, repre- 10 senting a ship, secured to the shaft adjacent its lower end and a cannon on the platform for projecting a ball against the member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ERNEST E. PEAVEY; 

